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Earnings and Unemployment
In the midst of earnings season, the market is responding in typical fashion. In one of my previous articles from earlier this month, I talked about some of the things the market needed to see from earnings season in order to stabilize and move higher. Well, we’re seeing them. Now what?

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Meetings
I had breakfast today with a senior executive who estimates she spends more than 30% of her time in internal meetings.

Elephant Math
Darwin pointed out that if you take one pair of breeding elephants and make some conservative estimates about their fertility, you would have more than 15 million elephants in less than 500 years (if none of them died an early death.)

3.8 Working to end child labour: Working Out of Poverty
Ensuring that children have a chance to break out of the cycle of poverty is a cause that has attracted worldwide support. The latest ILO estimates for 2000 are that some 352 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 were economically active.

The "2Bs": Buffett. Basics.
The subprime mess gets nastier by the day. I've seen recent estimates of the fiscal damage alone exceeding $1 trillion. (Not enough pain to reduce Wall Street bonuses, mind you—a record $39 billion in performance-based handouts expected.)

Macs more expensive? Not if you consider TCO
Recently, two analysts said that the common perception of Macs as pricey items is indeed true. Richard Shim, an analyst at market research firm IDC, and Ian Lao, an analyst at In-Stat, said that, without significant price cuts, Macs continue to cost between 25 and 40 percent more than PC hardware of equivalent specs, say both Shim and Lao.The Sellers Research Firm disagrees.

Deflation and the Dollar, Round 2?
The oil inventory numbers came out yesterday and there was an increase of roughly 5 million barrels, 1 million more than the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) estimates. Consequently, the price plunged nearly 6% in its largest drop in nearly 3 months. But is this the whole story?

Padding Estimates
We all know there is a game of padding estimates in most parts of our society. It certainly exists in business. Here are a few helpful thoughts on how you can get more accurate numbers.

5 Contractor Selling Techniques to use with Research-Savvy Customers
There are many kinds of customers, but the most classic might be the “we’re just shopping" type of customer. When this customer presents him or herself to you, they like to make sure that you know they are “just starting the process” of getting estimates.

The "Significants": Seven Roles Responsible for Business Requirements
Getting good business requirements for IT projects is one of the toughest tasks on any project - but who is responsible. It may not just be those who carry the title business analyst.

Maxwell: Oil to $300 by 2020
Thoughtful comments on oil from veteran oil analyst Charlie Maxwell in weekend Barron's:

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